GAME INFORMATION
GAME #9: #8/8 Cornell Big Red vs. Binghamton Bearcats
TIME: 3 p.m.
DATE: Tuesday, April 4, 2017
PLACE: Schoellkopf Field — Ithaca, N.Y.
LIVE VIDEO: Ivy League Digital Network
LIVE STATS: CornellBigRed.com
RECORDS: Cornell 7-1 (3-0 Ivy), Binghamton 5-6 (1-0 AE)
Game Notes: Cornell

About the Big Red
• On Saturday, Cornell got a career-high 13-save performance from Renee Poullott while Catherine Ellis scored her 100th career goal as well as the game-winning goal in a 12-9 win at Rutgers.
• The win – Cornell's sixth straight – helped the Big Red tie a program record for the best road start to a season.
• Cornell moved to 3-0 in Ivy League play with a 15-6 win at Yale on March 25.
• Trailing by two goals, 5-3, at halftime – just the third halftime deficit this season for Cornell – the team outscored the Bulldogs, 12-1, in the second half to win its fifth-straight game.
• The Big Red took down then #4/5 USC, 11-10, on March 19 in a neutral site battle at Boston University. 
• The Big Red went undefeated in the month of March ,topping Penn (10-4), Colgate (13-6), Columbia (14-11), USC (11-10) and Yale (15-6).

About the Bearcats
• Binghamton extended its win streak to three games on Saturday with a 13-6 win over Mount St. Mary's and enters Tuesday's game against Cornell with a 5-6 record.
• The team has held opponents to 10-or-less goals in the last six games.
• Rebecca Golderman leads the Bearcats with 37 points (33g, 4a) and also in draw controls (34) while four other players have at least 20 points. 
• Emma Jehle has played the majority of the minutes in the crease for Binghamton, going 5-6-0 while posting a 11.46 goals against average and a .466 save percentage.
• The Bearcats share four common opponents with the Big Red in 2017, having lost to Syracuse (16-5) and Dartmouth (15-11) while getting a win over Colgate (16-12) and still waiting to play UAlbany.

The Series with the Bearcats
• The Bearcats and Big Red first met in 2012, with Cornell rolling to a 17-8 victory on the road.
• Cornell has taken all five matchups against Binghamton, outscoring the Bearcats by a score of 85-31 in the series.
• Last season's 14-5 win at Binghamton was Cornell's eighth-straight to open the season – the best start to a season in program history. 

A Win Would…
• Move Cornell to 6-0 all-time against Binghamton.
• Give the Big Red its seventh-straight win.
• Bump Cornell's 2017 record against schools from the state of New York to 3-0.

About Head Coach Jenny Graap '86
• Now in her 20th season directing the Cornell women's lacrosse program in 2017, Jenny Graap amassed a 180-120 record in her first 19 seasons as the head coach of the Big Red, with her 200th overall career win coming in the form of a 11-10 win over Penn in the 2016 Ivy League Tournament Championship. 
• Graap began her head coaching career at George Mason, taking over the program in its first sponsored season in 1994 and amassing a 21-44 record over four seasons.
• Cornell has made the Ivy League tournament each of the last five seasons and six of the seven years that the tournament has been held. 
• Graap guided the Big Red to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments in 2001 and 2002 – reaching the semifinals in the latter year – and also brought the team to the tournament in 2006 and 2016. 
• Since she returned to her alma mater in 1997, Graap has led the team to postseason play nine times and has won at least 10 games eight times as well.

Notable Nine
• Cornell's win over Yale on March 25 included a stretch of nine unanswered goals for the Big Red.
• It's the longest stretch of unanswered goals for Cornell since a 23-6 win at California on March 29, 2015.

New York State of Mind
• Since 2010, Cornell is 26-10 against schools from the state of New York while the current senior class holds a record of 13-5.
• The Big Red has five New York teams on its schedule this season – Colgate, Columbia, Binghamton, UAlbany, and Syracuse – and so far is 2-0 in those contests.  

Defensive Dominance
• Cornell is giving up just 7.63 goals per game, the fourth-best mark in the nation, and has held opponents to six-or-less goals in four of eight games so far this season.
• The team held then #10/13 Penn scoreless in the second half on March 4, marking the first time since 2011 that the Big Red held a team without a goal in a half. 
• The Big Red held Colgate scoreless for over 30 minutes of play in its 13-6 win on March 7 and shutout Yale for the final 25:25 of a 15-6 comeback win on March 25. 
• On March 19 against USC, the Big Red limited a Trojan offense that had been averaging 14.83 goals per game to 10 scores. 
• Cornell went the first four games of the season without allowing an opponent to score more than nine goals, something the program hadn't done since 2008.

Renee Says No
• Goalkeeper Renee Poullott made a season-high and career-high 13 saves on April 1 in a 12-9 win at Rutgers.
• She made 10 saves in Cornell's 11-10 win over USC on March 19 and then repeated that save total in the very next outing, a 15-6 win at Yale on March 25.
• Poullott has now made at least 10 saves in a game on nine occasions in her career.
• The senior currently leads the nation with her 7.11 goals against average.
• Her .520 save percentage is good for eighth overall.

Assists by Amie
• After recording four assists in the first three games of the season, Amie Dickson registered 12 helpers in the next three.
• The senior had five assists in the Big Red's comeback win at Columbia on March 11, which tied a career-high, and added four more in Cornell's 11-10 upset of USC on March 19.
• She also had three assists in a 13-6 win over Colgate on March 7. 
• Dickson's 12 assists over those three games are the most over such a span for a Cornell player since Emily Tripodi earned 15 assists over three games in April 2013. 

Hot Streak
• Senior tri-captain Catherine Ellis has a 12 game goal streak dating back to the 2016 season.
• Ellis has scored 25 goals and assisted on 11 others in those 12 games.
• With a two goal outing against Rutgers on April 1, Ellis became the 15th player in program history to record 100 career goals. 

Balanced Offense
• In each of the first eight games of the season, Cornell has had at least six different goal scorers.
• Nine different players scored in the season-opening win over Villanova.
• The Big Red's comeback win over Yale included eight different goal scorers. 
• Against Columbia, Colgate, and Rutgers seven different players found the back of the net.
• The Big Red got goals from six different players in games against Penn State, Penn, and USC.

Multi-Goal Games
• Seven different Big Red players have posted at least one multi-goal outing this season.
• Junior Taylor Reed has registered multiple goals in six of Cornell's eight games so far this season.
• Senior Catherine Ellis and sophomore Sarah Phillips each have six multi-goal efforts. 
• Senior Kristy Gilbert scored multiple goals in five games for the Big Red while classmate Amie Dickson has four multi-goal outings.
• Sophomore Tomasina Leska and junior Joey Coffy have two and one, respectively. 

Road Warriors
• With its 12-9 win at Rutgers on April 1, the team tied a program record for the best road start in program history at 5-0. 
• Cornell went undefeated in its first six road games of the 1987 season before dropping an overtime game at Princeton, 6-5.
• That year's squad went on to finish with a road record of 9-1 away from Ithaca – and claim the New York State Championship. 

Taking Down the Trojans
• Cornell's 11-10 win over the then-ranked #4/5 USC Trojans on March 19 marked the program's first over a team ranked in the top five of the polls since a 9-6 upset of #2 Florida in the final game of the 2011 season.
• The win helped Cornell jump up four spots in both national polls, as the Big Red moved from 11th to seventh with the win.
• Senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott made 10 saves – including six in the second half – to help secure the upset of a USC squad that entered the game averaging 14.83 goals per game. 

Record Book Update
• Senior Renee Poullott is fourth all-time in program history with 352 career saves and is 11 away from the top three.
• Senior Amie Dickson is tied for fifth all-time with 61 assists and needs six more to move into the top three.
• Dickson currently sits third all-time with 121 career draw controls, 20 outside the number two spot. 
• Senior Catie Smith is third all-time with 79 career caused turnovers.

Milestone Watch
• Junior Joey Coffy needs just one more point and nine more goals to hit 50 overall in each category.
• Senior Amie Dickson is seven draw controls away from 125 (and recently hit 75 career goals).
• Senior Catherine Ellis is just four ground balls away from 50 (and recently eclipsed 100 career goals).
• Senior Kristy Gilbert needs two more points and six ground balls to hit 75 and 50, respectively, for her career in each category.
• Senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott needs five more wins to tie for the most in program history.
• Junior Taylor Reed is just three goals away from her 50th career tally. 

Ivy Honors
• Goalkeeper Renee Poullott was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 20.
• The senior made 10 saves and picked up two ground balls in Cornell's 11-10 win over then ranked #4/5 USC on March 19.
• It was the fifth career Ivy League weekly honor for Poullott.
• Senior defender Catie Smith was named the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on March 6.
• The tri-captain had four caused turnovers, two ground balls and two draw controls in helping the Big Red defense hold Penn scoreless in the second half of Cornell's 10-4 win on March 4. 
• It was the third career Ivy League weekly honor for Smith.

Smith Named to Tewaaraton Watch List
• Senior tri-captain Catie Smith was named to the 2017 Tewaaraton Award women's watch list on Feb. 28.
• The Tewaaraton Award annually honors the top male and female college lacrosse player in the United States.
• In 2016, she set the single-season program record with 41 caused turnovers.

Preseason All-Americans
• The Big Red had four players named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American list.
• Senior tri-captain and defender Catie Smith was named to the second team.
• Junior midfielders Joey Coffy and Taylor Reed and senior goalkeeper Renee Poullott were all named honorable mention Preseason All-Americans.

Meet the Captains
• Seniors Catherine Ellis, Kristy Gilbert and Catie Smith will be serving as Cornell's captains for the 2017 season.
• Ellis was second on the team in scoring last year (22g, 12a), and was named to the Ivy League All-Tournament Team.
• Gilbert appeared in all 19 contests last year and started 18 of them while putting up 24 points (18g, 6a). 
• Smith set a new single-season program record and led the Ivy League with 41 caused turnovers last season.

Up Next
• Cornell will remain at Schoellkopf Field this weekend, welcoming Brown on Saturday at 1 p.m. for an Ivy League matchup.
• The Big Red will then play its third home game in a week on Tuesday, April 11 when UAlbany visits Ithaca.